Conjectures of Order
Subtitle: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
Edition: Two Volume Boxed Set edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1456
ISBN-13: 9780807828007
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1800 to c 1900; Reference; History: American; History; History - U.S.; United States - State & Local - South; USA; Social conditions; United States - 19th Century; History/United States: Southern; American Studies;; 19th century; Intellectual life; Intellectuals; Southern States
First sentence: Thomas Dew of Virginia, writing in 1829 in the exordium of his Lectures on the Restrictive System, felt it important to stress that [t]his is a world of relations and dependencies, and consequent continual changes.